Dear Branch Trumpidians: point to me how the wall solves the problem of illegal immigration when the illegal immigration population has been dropping already due to economic forces thanks to the Great Recession and - someone help me here, do I just link to the NYT article about the wall and the tunnels making the wall ineffective? Do I lose fewer brain cells this way in arguing about how ineffective the wall is?
- Tens of thousands of people illegally cross the border every year. Every single job that an illegal obtains is a job taken away from an American. Every dollar from social programs spent on them (which amounts to billions) is a dollar taken away by American citizens.
- Walls work. And they work well. When Hungary constructed a border fence last year, illegal immigration dropped by 95%. Sure, you will never stop all of it. But to suggest that a wall will be ineffective is ludicrous. 20-30 million people will not get through the border as they've had before.
- Building a wall makes it exceptionally harder for drug cartels to come into our country with their drugs. Sure, they can build tunnels, but how much do you think drugs on our streets will be reduced if the flow is brought down to a trickle instead of a flood? As of right now, any drug cartel can just walk across many parts of our borders undisturbed.
- Also, every tunnel that we locate and destroy would set the cartels back dramatically (it takes a lot of effort to build them and time cost money). I highly doubt that the drug cartel business would be much profitable anymore. Best case scenario is that they fall apart due to internal struggles as the funds dry up.
And hell, if that happens, MAYBE they would no longer have such a strangle hold on Mexican politicians (the country is unbelievably corrupt). Perhaps then with drug cartels vanquished they can focus on taking care of their own people and building up their economy.
